Smart Cities
Smart Cities by Germaine Halegoua, published by MIT Press on February 18, 2020, is a comprehensive exploration of the concept of smart cities, spanning 248 pages in English. This book provides key concepts, definitions, and historical contexts essential for understanding the evolution and implications of smart urban environments. It addresses the dual nature of smart cities, examining both their potential benefits and drawbacks in the context of urban planning and public policy.
Readers will find a detailed discussion of various models for smart city development, including smart-from-the-start cities, retrofitted cities, and social cities, along with relevant examples. The book delves into the technologies and methods that underpin smart cities, such as sensors, public Wi-Fi, and big data, while emphasizing the importance of citizen engagement and the relationship between technology and urban life. Halegoua argues for a collaborative approach between developers and local communities, highlighting the need to recognize existing urban dynamics and the limitations of purely technological solutions.
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Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.
Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of this approach to urban life.
After reviewing current terminology and justifications employed by technology designers, journalists, and researchers, the book describes three models for smart city development—smart-from-the-start cities, retrofitted cities, and social cities—and offers examples of each. It covers technologies and methods, including sensors, public wi-fi, big data, and smartphone apps, and discusses how developers conceive of interactions among the built environment, technological and urban infrastructures, citizens, and citizen engagement. Throughout, the author—who has studied smart cities around the world—argues that smart city developers should work more closely with local communities, recognizing their preexisting relationship to urban place and realizing the limits of technological fixes. Smartness is a means to an end: improving the quality of urban life.
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